[It's not as if it's unheard of for cousins to marry, but.. ew, Victoria is like his sister and he'd be the first to punch someone in the face for implying something like that]

Heh, alright then, come on.

[With her hanging onto his arm he moves into the tunnel behind the bookcase. There are torches on the walls, though they're unlit, but even then it's certainly not dark. There's a ghostlike, greenish glow suffusing the corridor, filtering in through strange cracks running along the walls. At one time it looked as if it might have been a functional hallway, but it's long since fallen into disuse, and magic now seems to be the only thing stopping it from collapsing and flooding.

As they continue to walk, the cracks widen into large fissures, and every now and then large portions of the walls or ceiling have simply fallen away. It's like some kind of grotesque aquarium, and in the water visible through the 'windows' of magic holding it back, dark shapes and shadows can be made out, flitting about in the distance]

I don't know where this tunnel used to go. It's completely collapsed at the far end.